'Eating Too Much of Everything': What We Heard This Week

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"Another myth that has been repeated so often it's become a meme is that 'Americans have been told to eat less fat, they're fatter than ever, so low fat is dead.' It turns out that every decade since 1950, Americans have been eating more fat, more sugar, more calories, and more meat -- not surprisingly, we're fatter because we're eating too much of everything." -- Dean Ornish, MD, of Preventive Medicine Research Institute, on The Great Butter Debate.

"Simply targeting drinking and driving among young people is likely to be inadequate." -- Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, director of the Urban Health and Advocacy Track at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, about new research, state-level alcohol policies, and accident rates.

"It was the committee's conclusion that germline heritable editing clinical trials would be permissible -- not obligatory, but permissible." -- R. Alta Charo, JD, committee co-chair and bioethics scholar at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison on a report on the science and policy of human gene editing and its ethical ramifications from the Committee on Human Gene Editing of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

"So, in short, the burden of CVD is growing faster than our ability to combat it." – American Heart Association President Steven Houser, PhD, on a report that the growth in cardiovascular disease has outpaced expectations.

"The findings underscore the importance of vigilance when treating gestational diabetes, even when women are not receiving insulin. Careful monitoring at the end of pregnancy should be implemented to decide the best time to give birth." -- Sophie Jacqueminet, MD, of Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, about a new large-scale study that identified serious fetal risks from gestational diabetes.

"You've done a great job in your current capacity. You've got about as many friends in Alaska as polar bears," -- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), to VA Secretary nominee David Shulkin, MD, following an exchange about Alaska's veteran population.

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